XII International Pollination Course

November 17th to 29th 2017 – Ilha do Cardoso – São Paulo

Application Guidelines

The international pollination course is a longstanding biannual field course aimed at training graduate, advanced undergraduate and professionals, working with pollination ecology and floral biology. In 2017 the course will take place at Ilha do Cardoso in the State of São Paulo. The course is organised by a permanent core team (Kayna Agostini – UFSCar – Araras; Marina Wolowski – UNIFAL-MG; Vinicius L. G. Brito – UFU; André Rodrigo Rech – UFVJM; Patrícia Alves Ferreira – USP; Luísa G. Carvalheiro – UnB and Leandro Freitas – JBRJ) and receives National and International contributions at every edition. The main objectives of the course are to present and discuss different ecological and evolutive aspects of pollination biology, develop the student’s ability to generate novel interesting hypotheses related to the topic and to develop the skills to design experiments that allow to test such hypotheses under field conditions. Eligible applications must fulfil the following requirements:

To be a graduate or an advanced undergraduate student or a professional working in the area of pollination ecology or floral biology;

To send an application letter justifying the relevance of the course for the applicant’s carrier;

To pay the course fee (R$ 1350,00*) during the confirmation period (timetable below).

* The course fee will cover transport by boat from Cananeia to the Cardoso Island, accommodation and food during the course. In the accommodation there is no internet connexion but it is possible to use the mobile phone (vivo) in some places on the Island.